Hawn Gallery Exhibitions

After Order, After Disorder colorful figures and fauna

After Order, After Disorder

Hamon Arts Library

A selection of Dylan Glynn’s paintings, works on paper, digital prints, and animated shorts. 

Against the Best Possible Sources white on white forms with decoration

Against the Best Possible Sources

Hamon Arts Library

Guided by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts, Elizabeth Moran uses photography, text, sound, and other forms of recorded documentation to examine the reliability of information and how evidence is often far from evident.

Agents of Change artificial process applied to wood

Agents of Change

Hamon Arts Library

Agents of Change, works by  Arthur Koch, questions about the relationships of the words "natural" and "artificial" and led me to realize that while wood is a natural material, the process I applied to wood was a process that could be considered artificial.

Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination Artwork in the Hawn Gallery including photographs, a sculpture, and an image of water projected on a screen

Aquatic Channels: Waterways, Water Resources, Fluvial Imagination

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition turns rivers into lines of connection. Moving and flowing in many directions, these lines form a complex network of images, ideas, sounds, and objects, evoking a symbolic hydrography in the exhibition space. Bodies of water become the conduits of the meanings.

Archive of Shadows: Andrew Douglas Underwood graphite on paper, black and white drawing of Moses

Archive of Shadows: Andrew Douglas Underwood

Hamon Arts Library

Dallas-based artist Andrew Douglas Underwood research-based artistic practice explores historic vignettes, examines the notion of perfection, and questions the possibility of objectivity.  

ARK: An Experimental Film A film projector and image on the screen

ARK: An Experimental Film

Hamon Arts Library

ARK is a cinematic installation featuring a film by Michael A. Morris made from archival 35mm film prints held in the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection.

Art of the Caricature figure dressed in dress clothes

Art of the Caricature

Hamon Arts Library

Thomas Gibson Bowles desire was to establish Vanity Fair as a periodical defining the social and cultural life of London in Victorian England.

Camilla Cowan: Paintings and Prints textured black circle artwork

Camilla Cowan: Paintings and Prints

Hamon Arts Library

This show featured Camilla Cowan's prints and paintings, many inspired by molas and other folk art.

Christine Sanford: Devotion to Blue different colors of blue in a landscape

Christine Sanford: Devotion to Blue

Hamon Arts Library

Sanford's interest in painting is in the experimentation of endless nuances of color combination possibilities, "color is feeling, color has emotional resonance."

Chromarray red and blue fabric against a yellow wall

Chromarray

Hamon Arts Library

Artwork featured from Constance Lowe’s series Garden City (Air to Ground), FabCom and Chromarray that examines the intersection between natural and human-constructed environments.

Clear, Deep, Dark black and white artwork in a gallery setting

Clear, Deep, Dark

Hamon Arts Library

Clear, Deep, Dark features new works by Julie Morel that examines the intersections between text and visual imagery. 

Collective Practice photo of two books

Collective Practice

Hamon Arts Library

Collective Practice: Community Building Through Zines presents works by Puro Chingón Collective, with members James Huizar, Claudia Zapata and Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi.

David Dreyer: Southwestern Landscapes Artwork featuring mountains and a stream

David Dreyer: Southwestern Landscapes

Hamon Arts Library

Paintings and works on paper by David Dreyer, technical advisor and adjunct professor in SMU’s Division of Studio Art.

Decoding: Hidden Traces in Contemporary Drawing Decoding: Hidden Traces in Contemporary Art

Decoding: Hidden Traces in Contemporary Drawing

Hamon Arts Library

Features rarely seen works from the University Art Collection that explore instances of legibility and illegibility, ambiguity and abstraction, concealment and uncovering in drawing since the 1950s.

Dis-Reality of the Southwest photograph on a sunny day of ruins

Dis-Reality of the Southwest

Hamon Arts Library

Six photographic collages by Jeffrey Junkin, MFA candidate in photography. 

Drawn from Nature: Scott Winterrowd sketched trees and mountains in nature colors

Drawn from Nature: Scott Winterrowd

Hamon Arts Library

Exhibited in 2012, Dallas artist and museum educator Scott Winterrowd had sketched a wide variety of the landscapes in the American West, including California, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Big Bend region of Texas, working primarily in watercolor.

Evans Pond, by Deborah Garwood photographs of nature

Evans Pond, by Deborah Garwood

Hamon Arts Library

Deborah Garwood is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York. Her work explores the interdependence of nature and culture.

I AM THE SPACE WHERE I AM with John Arnone I AM THE SPACE WHERE I AM

I AM THE SPACE WHERE I AM with John Arnone

Hamon Arts Library

A retrospective of the work from Tony award winning theater designer, John Arnone, including sketches, set designs, stage models, and theater props.

Illusion of Being: Photographic Works arms and eyes reflecting in a mirror

Illusion of Being: Photographic Works

Hamon Arts Library

The Illusion of Being is a three-person exhibition of photographic works by DFW based artists Lynné Bowman Cravens, Ross Faircloth, and Ashley Whitt. Each artist utilizes lens-based media to investigate notions of reality as perceived by the self.

Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes:1976-2020 three framed colorful prints and table

Incidents on a Page: Dallas-Venice Dreamscapes:1976-2020

Hamon Arts Library

Artist Michael Corris explores art’s role in the process of a city’s identity formation, in particular his relationship to Dallas, Texas and Venice, Italy.

Information Object: Late 20th and Early 21st Century Artists' Books A collection of books including concertina-style

Information Object: Late 20th and Early 21st Century Artists' Books

Hamon Arts Library

Artists have used the book as medium for exposing their images and concepts, which in turn challenge the form of the book as an information package and loops back to extend the idea of a book qua book.

In Search of Belonging photo of a woman with colorful earrings and dark hair

In Search of Belonging

Hamon Arts Library

Building on the research of the PRIDE@SMU capstone project, In Search of Belonging explores stories of LGBTQ+ student organizing -- struggles for equality and recognition -- through oral history and archival documents.

Jer'Lisa Devezin: Texturized Jer'Lisa Devezin: Texturized

Jer'Lisa Devezin: Texturized

Hamon Arts Library

Explore Devezin's work which plays with material investigations through steel sculptural drawings, woven paintings, and ceramics.

Leonard Stokes Various objects in a gray field

Leonard Stokes

Hamon Arts Library

An invitation to viewers to eavesdrop on the conversations between and among the archival digital prints and their paper collage ancestors.

Lili Kantor: There was a Forest dinner table setting with banner

Lili Kantor: There was a Forest

Hamon Arts Library

The photographs in this series document the parallel stories of the lives and rituals of the disappearing population of Jews still living in small enclaves in Eastern Europe.

Lorraine Tady: Paintings & Drawings red and blue abstract painting

Lorraine Tady: Paintings & Drawings

Hamon Arts Library

The painting process is described as diagramming, mapping, plan/elevation, cross-section, translation/re-translation inquiry (or subverting the clarity these systematic intentions may imply). 

Mark Williams: Drawings notebooks with drawings in black and neutrals

Mark Williams: Drawings

Hamon Arts Library

Williams’ small drawings and studio sketchbooks illuminate his working process of construction and variation of color, shape and line in a simple and intimate manner. 

Mexico: Stanley Marcus Collection Mexican altar scene

Mexico: Stanley Marcus Collection

Hamon Arts Library

In celebration of the Mexican centennial in 2010, an exhibition of historic books and portfolios from Mexico, part of the Stanley Marcus Collection at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.

Michael O'Keefe drawing and a statue neutral colors

Michael O'Keefe

Hamon Arts Library

On view in 2005 were 29 individual works by sculptor Michael O’Keefe. These works included 22 small-scale drawings and seven sculptures.  

Nancy Brown Mixed Media on Paper shape and line in purple and brown tones

Nancy Brown Mixed Media on Paper

Hamon Arts Library

Highly decorative arrangements of shapes embedded with unexpected motifs that are in reference to an enigmatic story continuously changing as it unfolds.

Narrative as Reality: A World Reimagined blue and yellow painting with figures

Narrative as Reality: A World Reimagined

Hamon Arts Library

A glimpse into the Jessica and Kelvin Beachum Family Collection beholds an artistic world of hope, Black joy, reality, and aspiration.

Octaviano Rangel blue, black, gray & white shapes

Octaviano Rangel

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition of recent work by Dallas and Monterrey-based artist, Octaviano Rangel is inspired by Franz Kakfa’s Metamorphosis.

On-N-On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia E. Butler Colorful art hanging on a white wall

On-N-On: Ciara Elle Bryant in Conversation with Octavia E. Butler

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition showcases Hamon Arts Library holdings related to Octavia Butler’s writing alongside a mixed media installation by Dallas artist Ciara Elle Bryant pertaining to identity, bibliography, and virtuality.

Piecing It Together colorful lines and shapes

Piecing It Together

Hamon Arts Library

A selection of abstract paintings and drawings by Danielle Kimzey, Mary Laube, and Christopher Reno. These artists explore the private world of the ‘home’ and seek to demystify this insular, domestic space.

Pipes on Paper rendition of an organ in brown

Pipes on Paper

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibition presents a selection of books on this grand and artful instrument, the organ, from the James L. Wallmann Collection.

R3clamation: Routes and Roots piles of clothing of all colors

R3clamation: Routes and Roots

Hamon Arts Library

Basil Kincaid’s R3clamation: Routes and Roots is the third iteration of the artist’s Reclamation Project and is, among other things, an intimate examination of his hometown of St. Louis.

Renaissance Technology in Print vintage black and white scene of a sculptor's studio

Renaissance Technology in Print

Hamon Arts Library

Through a seminar in Renaissance Technology for the Art History graduate students in the Rhetorics of Art, Space and Culture (RASC/a) program, the exhibition is a collaboration of ideas and knowledge through the advancement of print and book production 

Shaped by Water black and white photograph of two people

Shaped by Water

Hamon Arts Library

Large format black & white landscape photographs range from grand views in the American West to quiet, intimate scenes along streams in the Texas Hill Country.

"Sounding" by Allyson Packer a video of water captured in a still image

"Sounding" by Allyson Packer

Hamon Arts Library

Sounding is a site-specific, interactive installation with looping video, text-based instructions, and subtle interventions into the architecture and resources of Hamon Arts Library.

Susan Barnett: Thought Patterns blue, black. and white shapes on red orange background

Susan Barnett: Thought Patterns

Hamon Arts Library

Susan Barnett works originated with paintings based upon a specialized type of Latin Square popularized by the Sudoku puzzle. 

Tino Ward: Phosphenes Hawn Gallery with paper pulp paintings displayed on the walls

Tino Ward: Phosphenes

Hamon Arts Library

Tino Ward’s suite of paper pulp paintings depicts symbols from anthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger’s catalog of proto-linguistic signs found in ancient cave paintings, known as “phosphenes.”

Torn Apart: Punk + New Wave Graphics, Fashion & Culture, 1976-1986 promotional poster for Torn Apart exhibition

Torn Apart: Punk + New Wave Graphics, Fashion & Culture, 1976-1986

Hamon Arts Library

This exhibit brings together two notable collections of posters, flyers, clothing, and ephemera from this highly influential era of pivotal cultural shift in Britain and the United States.

Vance Wingate - Variation and Theme cream circle on brown background

Vance Wingate - Variation and Theme

Hamon Arts Library

Wingate says, "the structures in my work are derived from typography and letter construction, printed texts, decorative type ornaments, logos and symbols."

What We Keep: The Objects of Immigrants to America What We Keep Exhibit in the Hawn Gallery

What We Keep: The Objects of Immigrants to America

Hamon Arts Library

The exhibition is an installation of fifteen drawings by artist, Jane Chu. The exhibition centers upon her mother’s journey out of China during the Chinese Revolution of 1949.